GROSSE POINTE AND BEYOND
An Unexpected Life: A Family Chronicle
Tom Van Lokeren
GROSSE POINTE AND BEYOND
An Unexpected Life: A Family Chronicle
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Contents
Underlined chapters are live links
A Vigilante Accountant
The Street That Inhabits Me
Round & Round & Round You Go
Love At First Sight with a Chicago Bull
Some Never Had a Chance
On Canada’s Peche Island
Caps, Gowns, Pantyhose and Soakers
My Dear Nephew’s Original Writings
From Solving the Famous Brink’s Robbery to the Father of U.S. Lotteries
From Four Room Log Cabin to 45 Room Mansion
Measure of Last Resort
The Newport, Rhode Island of the Midwest
A Favorite at Every Reunion
They Made Away with Hundreds of Thousands
A Magic Kingdom
The Crime—Riding Through a Square on a Unicycle Playing a Banjo
Just One Good Opportunity Could have Saved his Life
Denied Visitation, Denied Timely Medical Treatment, Denied Her Home—Manslaughter, Murder?
The Quiet Erasure of Two American Beer Families—The Busches & The Stroh’s
Clue: Once Married to Elizabeth Taylor
An Adventure into Extreme Psychotherapy
Battleground Arizona
A Front Row Seat to a Marriage Going Up in Flames
Uncle in the Dust
If You Love Your Home Just Take It With You
From Land Barons in Kauai to Servants’ Quarters in St. Helena
Wecome to the Dot.Com Frenzy of the late 90s and early 2000s
A Night in Port Huron—July 1964
The Morgans, Mary, Marcie & Me
A Toxic Spill Can not Only Ruin Your Life but Your Family Too
Greg Stroh, Izze and the Sparkling Second Act of a Fallen Beer Dynasty
Leftovers Secured
Future chapters coming in Late July 2026
“Sitting on Tens of $$$Millions”
Brotherly Love — The 71 Dollar Sendoff at 95 Lakeshore to Fight a Corporate Polluter with Deep Pockets
HARBOR SPRINGS, MICHIGAN
“He was hunting for big game, or so he said”
From the Bluff up at Harbor Springs
“From Six Packs and Cases of Beer to the Boardroom of an International Company”
The Masco Appointment
“Temporary Restraining Order(TRO)—Cease and Desist the Publication of this Book”
Silence Sought, Speech Defended, Case Dismissed
“Back Against the Wall”
Oh, I Get By with a Little Help from my Friends
“Scorched Earth”
The Building & The Betrayals
“Yes from DuMouchelles, No from the Manoogians”
Art in Times of Distress
“The Orphans”
Two Scorched Giant Sequoias Ignite a Fight to Save the Rest
“Wrecking Ball”
Cruella—At It Again On Multiple Fronts—Grosse Pointe & Harbor Springs
“Shall We Go See What’s Under the Hood?”
The Provencal After Party—A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Where the Women Stayed Pregnant
The Mount Hope Cult
“The Night I Met the Man who Helped Bring Wall Street Online”
My Private Dinner in Kauai with Bill Porter—Founder of ETrade
More Chapters to Come Throughout The Summer of ’26